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" When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. "

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" What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. "

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" No hero is mortal till he dies. "

" Now is the age of anxiety. "

" No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. "

" The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. "

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" Learn from your dreams what you lack. "

" Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. "

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" Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. "

" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

" May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? "

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" It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. "

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